Pakistan Data Darbar: Bomber kills nine outside Sufi shrine in Lahore – BBC News
Jeezus…
Category: International Affairs,
Salon.com: Failed Venezuela coup was fake news
Either CNN’s U.S.-based editors were lied to by their reporters in Caracas, or they were well aware that their story of the takeover of a military airfield, along with reports of thousands of protesters on the scene in support of Guaidó, was a hoax. It’s not hard to imagine the latter being the truth, because CNN earlier was caught fraudulently reporting that Venezuelan troops had set aid trucks stopped at the Colombian border afire, when in fact the fires had been started by anti-Maduro protesters.
…Guaidó was not even a candidate in the May 2018 (not January 2019) presidential elections; Maduro won that race with 68 percent of the vote.
…Casey, in his article, writes that “by the end of the day,” it was clear that Guaidó had failed to precipitate a successful coup, but he doesn’t say what had been clear much earlier that day: that the airport had never been captured at all, and that Guaidó had not spoken from a liberated airfield, but from a bridge outside the airfield.
Failed Venezuela coup was fake news — designed to fool people in two nations | Salon.com
uhhhhh…
US Border Patrol Is the Most Brutal Militia of All
US Border Patrol Is the Most Brutal Militia of All
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Amazon Tribe Wins Lawsuit Against Big Oil, Saving Millions Of Acres Of Rainforest
After a long legal battle with a number of organizations, the Waorani people successfully protected half a million acres of their ancestral territory in the Amazon rainforest from being mined for oil drilling by huge oil corporations. The auctioning off of Waorani lands to the oil companies was suspended indefinitely by a three-judge panel of the Pastaza Provincial Court. The panel simply trashed the consultation process the Ecuadorian government had undertaken with the tribe in 2012, which rendered the attempt at land purchase null and void.
This win for the indigenous tribe has now set an invaluable legal precedent for other indigenous nations across the Ecuadorian Amazon. After accepting a Waorani bid for court protection to stop an oil bidding process, the court also halted the potential auctioning off of 16 oil blocks that cover over 7 million acres of indigenous territory.
Amazon Tribe Wins Lawsuit Against Big Oil, Saving Millions Of Acres Of Rainforest | Disclose.tv
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Trump reverses US policy, endorsing Israeli control of Golan Heights
Trump endorsed permanent Israeli control of the disputed Golan Heights, saying on Thursday that the area seized from Syria in the 1967 Arab war is “of critical strategic and security importance” to Israel.
…”After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognise Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
Trump reverses US policy, endorsing Israeli control of Golan Heights
Disgusting and embarrassingly misguided.
Bones of mysterious extinct Denosivan human found in the Himalayas
A 160,000-year-old Denisovan jawbone unearthed in a cave in Xiahe, China, is the oldest hominin fossil ever found in the vast Himalayan region that has an average altitude of 4,500 metres (14,800ft).
…Modern day humans are not thought to have arrived on the Tibetan plateau until around 40,000 years ago.
…Both Denisovans and their sister human sub-species, the Neanderthals, are known to have interbred with the ancestors of people living today. Most intriguingly, modern Sherpas and Tibetans appear to have inherited Denisovan genetic variants that help them cope with high altitudes.
…Their muscles get more mileage out of less oxygen than those of the average person. S
herpas have mitochondria – tiny rod-like power plants in cells – that are extra-efficient at using oxygen.
While their red blood cell count is increased in thin mountain air, it remains below the point at which the blood thickens and strains the heart, causing altitude sickness.
…Sherpas have lived in the Himalayas for at least 6,000 years.
Bones of mysterious extinct Denosivan human found in the Himalayas | Metro News
huh
Crusader skull used to spread disease and slash morale discovered by archaeologists
Crusader skull used to spread disease and slash morale discovered by archaeologists
Ok, it’s a wild story and all but how do they come up with the theory that the skull was catapulted to spread disease?
How did the archaeologists decide it was used as a projectile in the first place?
How did they rule out the possibility of someone being decapitated during the conflict and either in the chaos of the battle or the following seven centuries the bones were separated from the body?
What is the difference between bodies which “had been disposed of in the pit and burned” and what happened to the bodies of soldiers that died on the battlefield and were buried by their own side?
At least the way it is presented it seems like a lot to get from some 700-or so year old bones.
Why False Accusations of Anti-Semitism Are So Harmful
That’s real anti-Semitism—and it’s on the rise. The good news is that a wide range of communities have come together to defend and support the victims of this rising tide, understanding how anti-Semitism is linked to the parallel rise in White supremacy and all the evils that come from it. Among them are antiracism and Black freedom movements, a plethora of Muslim and other faith-based organizations, immigrant and refugee rights mobilizations, Jewish peace and Palestinian rights-focused organizations and civil rights groups.
…The bad news is that false accusations of anti-Semitism—usually linked to criticism of Israel or Israel’s supporters in the United States—are on the rise as well. And we need to be clear: It is not anti-Semitic to support Palestinian rights, demand a change in U.S. policy toward Israel, expose the kind of pressure that the pro-Israel lobby brings to bear on elected officials, or call out Israel’s violations of human rights and international law. False accusations of anti-Semitism are used to undermine Palestinian rights, violate the First Amendment, and demonize social movements. They also serve as a powerful diversion from the urgent task of combating the real thing.
False accusations aren’t made equally against all critics of Israel and supporters of Palestinian rights. They are far more likely to be deployed against people of color, especially Black and Arab intellectuals.
Why False Accusations of Anti-Semitism Are So Harmful by Phyllis Bennis — YES! Magazine
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